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david. >> reena ninan in our washington bureau tonight, reena, thank you. >>> now to that alarming problem overtaking some of america's lakes and we even saw it in washington, d.c. this week at the lincoln memorial where the famous reflecting pool was instead filled with clumps of green. it is happening all across this country and in some places it's making people sick. here's abc's senior fwhat correspondent jim avila. >> reporter: it's an assault on nearly all the senses -- a living, breathing, growing toxic organism known as blue-green algae -- at its worst this month. >> that's very much alive. >> gosh. it smells bad. whoo. >> reporter: caking america's lakes. so thick, the swirling slime can actually be seen in photos from space. >> people that used to be here after a couple years said we just kacht handle it anymore and left. >> reporter: tom koren runs the marina at lake petenwell, wisconsin or tries to. >> nobody wants to swim in this water, and nobody wants to boat in it. >> reporter: it not only looks bad and smells bad, it's toxic, and those who are unlucky enough to fall in wit
david. >> reena ninan in our washington bureau tonight, reena, thank you. >>> now to that alarming problem overtaking some of america's lakes and we even saw it in washington, d.c. this week at the lincoln memorial where the famous reflecting pool was instead filled with clumps of green. it is happening all across this country and in some places it's making people sick. here's abc's senior fwhat correspondent jim avila. >> reporter: it's an assault on nearly all the senses...
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here's abc's reena ninan now. >> reporter: it was the wailing of distress from the mother panda, mei xiang, that alerted zookeepers at the national zoo in washington, d.c., that the cub was in trouble. >> this is devastating. this is devastating for all of us here. it's hard to describe how much passion and nrmg and thought and care has gone into this. >> reporter: staffers entered the panda habitat an hour after hearing the mother's cries this morning. cpr was performed on the cub, but with no effect. there were no signs of wounds or trauma, and the cause of death still is unknown. this was the first panda birth at the zoo in seven years. getting pregnant wasn't easy. it involved artificial insemination, tracking hormone levels for months, using the latest reproductive technology. everything down to how much artificial light she would get was factored in. and there was still only a 10% chance of success. the panda had five pregnancies, but this was her first baby. just a week old, the sex not yet known. keeping baby pandas alive is a difficult process. while few actually survive, th
here's abc's reena ninan now. >> reporter: it was the wailing of distress from the mother panda, mei xiang, that alerted zookeepers at the national zoo in washington, d.c., that the cub was in trouble. >> this is devastating. this is devastating for all of us here. it's hard to describe how much passion and nrmg and thought and care has gone into this. >> reporter: staffers entered the panda habitat an hour after hearing the mother's cries this morning. cpr was performed on...
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david. >> reena ninan in washington. reena, thank you. >>> to a different kind of threat, that disease we've been reporting. the deadly hanta virus at yosemite park. 29 how to you potentially at risk and we're learning another case of it this one in houston. they say it is completely unrelated. a woman catching the disease while cleaning a cluttered home for the reality tv series "hoarding: buried alive." we're told the woman is recovering. >>> there is news about yet another rare disease making headlines, this one straight out of the middle ages, the case of bubonic plague. abc's clayton sandell is in colorado tonight. >> reporter: little sierra jane downing is in the hospital recovering from the fight of her life. >> get up and walk? >> yeah, i can a little. >> reporter: the big dimpled 7-year-old came down with what her parents thought was flu. >> she wasn't herself. >> reporter: but then a seizure. her breathing stopped. >> i thought, oh, my gosh, we're going to lose her. >> reporter: she was air lifted to the rocky
david. >> reena ninan in washington. reena, thank you. >>> to a different kind of threat, that disease we've been reporting. the deadly hanta virus at yosemite park. 29 how to you potentially at risk and we're learning another case of it this one in houston. they say it is completely unrelated. a woman catching the disease while cleaning a cluttered home for the reality tv series "hoarding: buried alive." we're told the woman is recovering. >>> there is news...
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it will cure anything, according to them. >>> i'm reena ninan. it was a sucker-punch aimed directly where the obama campaign hurts the most. >> jobs numbers. >> unemployment rate. >> reporter: without hesitation, romney pouncing on the new unemployment numbers. >> i know how to get the private sector to create 12 million new jobs. >> reporter: mitt romney and paul ryan, convincing americans a vote for obama won't make them or their pocketbooks better off. >> for every person who got a job, nearly four people stop looked for a job. they gave up. we can't keep doing this. >> reporter: hoping that history might repeat itself, with presidential incumbents like ford, carter and bush in '92, failed to convince voters with similar economic woes, why the country was better off with them. >> here in colorado, we're not better off under president obama. >> reporter: and knowing the economy's unlikely to bounce back by november, on friday, the campaign released 15 new ads, targeting 8 states, explaining how mitt romney plans to help. >> the romney plan, fos
it will cure anything, according to them. >>> i'm reena ninan. it was a sucker-punch aimed directly where the obama campaign hurts the most. >> jobs numbers. >> unemployment rate. >> reporter: without hesitation, romney pouncing on the new unemployment numbers. >> i know how to get the private sector to create 12 million new jobs. >> reporter: mitt romney and paul ryan, convincing americans a vote for obama won't make them or their pocketbooks better off....
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and we'll hear from abc's reena ninan, covering the romney campaign in just a moment. but first, abc's david kerley is at the white house. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. flat. disappointing. some would call this a dismal jobs report. and it has the president trying out a new message on voters. he's asking for more time. the president bounded on to a stage in new hampshire, less than 12 hours after accepting his nomination, trying to put the most positive spin he could on those disappointing jobs numbers. >> after losing around 800,000 jobs a month when i took office, business, once again, added jobs for the 30th month in a row. >> reporter: true. still, 23 million americans are unemployed. and the president acknowledges all the frustration. >> that's not good enough. we know it's not good enough. we need to create more jobs, faster. >> reporter: and that is part of a new narrative, which the president introduced in his acceptance speech. pleading for patience. claiming his plan to fix the economy takes more than four years. >> yes, our path is
and we'll hear from abc's reena ninan, covering the romney campaign in just a moment. but first, abc's david kerley is at the white house. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. flat. disappointing. some would call this a dismal jobs report. and it has the president trying out a new message on voters. he's asking for more time. the president bounded on to a stage in new hampshire, less than 12 hours after accepting his nomination, trying to put the most positive spin he...
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abc's reena ninan joins us live from washington, d.c. with the latest. good morning, reena. >> reporter: good morning to you, ron. the family called the killing senseless and believes the agent involved overreacted but but border police say he acted in self-defense. unjustifiable murder, that's how the family of 32-year-old woman killed by an undercover u.s. border patrol agent feels about their death. >> i love her to the fullest with my heart. >> reporter: this morning they're demanding answers, saying a plainclothes border patrol agent gunned down and killed 32-year-old valeria alvarado in chula vista, california, without reason. >> there's no evidence that my wife threatened a trained officer, you know, a trained officer, to use lethal force. shoot my wife like that and just not even call an ambulance. >> reporter: the agent's body leaving this very large dent in the windshield on impact smattered with bullet holes. police say that the agents were in the neighborhood to serve a felony warrant when the agent was struck by the woman's car and needed to
abc's reena ninan joins us live from washington, d.c. with the latest. good morning, reena. >> reporter: good morning to you, ron. the family called the killing senseless and believes the agent involved overreacted but but border police say he acted in self-defense. unjustifiable murder, that's how the family of 32-year-old woman killed by an undercover u.s. border patrol agent feels about their death. >> i love her to the fullest with my heart. >> reporter: this morning...
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and reena ninan leads off our campaign coverage from washington. hi, reena. >> reporter: hi, dan. good morning to you. 66 days before the election began, team romney wasted no time. going straight to battleground states, convincing voters why there needs to be new leadership in the white house. >> governor mitt romney. >> reporter: just hours after leaving tampa, mitt romney and paul ryan hit the trail hard, driving their convention messages home. >> i want to make sure that every person in this country that wants a job can find one. >> reporter: romney, remaining positive, pushing his economic agenda. >> time to give someone new a chance. hold us accountable. >> what a great convention, huh? >> reporter: ryan, who took on president obama in his primetime speech, continued his role as attack dog. >> we're not just going to go to you and say vote against the other guy because he's no good. we could do that because -- the record's no good. >> reporter: it's too soon to tell just how much of a positive bounce romney has coming out of the convention. but what he does have, tens of mil
and reena ninan leads off our campaign coverage from washington. hi, reena. >> reporter: hi, dan. good morning to you. 66 days before the election began, team romney wasted no time. going straight to battleground states, convincing voters why there needs to be new leadership in the white house. >> governor mitt romney. >> reporter: just hours after leaving tampa, mitt romney and paul ryan hit the trail hard, driving their convention messages home. >> i want to make sure...
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reena ninan is covering the story. >> reporter: none of the british newspapers chose to run any of the images. but the headlines in today's "daily mirror" pretty much sums up prince william's feelings. i won't let kate suffer like my mother. william and kate touring the rain forest of borneo. where half the world away, those topless photos gone global. an italian magazine has porched and will publish more photos next week. the palace striking back and striking fast. launching legal proceedings against the french tabloid magazine that published the photos of kate sunbathing on a private balcony. abc news has chosen not to show those images. the et tore of the magazine suggested there's more photos to come. photos she says were too personal to run. friday was kate's first public appearance at a mosque. so similar to princess diana, in egypt back in 1992. but it's this similarity of furious prince william doesn't want repeated. bob woodruff is traveling with the royal couple. >> there's no public indication on how william and kate feel. but as they continue on this tour, what we know for
reena ninan is covering the story. >> reporter: none of the british newspapers chose to run any of the images. but the headlines in today's "daily mirror" pretty much sums up prince william's feelings. i won't let kate suffer like my mother. william and kate touring the rain forest of borneo. where half the world away, those topless photos gone global. an italian magazine has porched and will publish more photos next week. the palace striking back and striking fast. launching...
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and abc's reena ninan is on the story this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: his family is questioning why he would make these revelations now about some of the darkest times in their past. >> so, you lied to her? >> you can say that. >> she gave up a television career for you. i mean, wow. >> reporter: new questions for the former california governor. and new, painful answers. >> i think it was the stupidest thing i've done in the whole relationship. it was terrible. >> reporter: in his latest revelation from "total recall," he writes about the affair he had with the housekeeper of 20 years. he admits it wasn't the only affair he had. >> i inflicted tremendous pain on maria. and unbelievable pain on the kids. >> reporter: the affair with the housekeeper resulted in a son, joseph, now 14 years old. seen here just thursday, walking with his mother in california. born only days after his wife, maria shriver, delivered their youngest son. his wife confronted him about the affair during a marriage counseling session. he admitted i
and abc's reena ninan is on the story this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: his family is questioning why he would make these revelations now about some of the darkest times in their past. >> so, you lied to her? >> you can say that. >> she gave up a television career for you. i mean, wow. >> reporter: new questions for the former california governor. and new, painful answers. >> i think it was the stupidest thing i've done in the whole...